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(No Model.)

. J. W. & A. E. GREENE.

WINDOW SHADE HANGING.

No. 340,438. Patented Am; 20, 1886.

WITNESSES NITED STATES PAT NT FFICEJ JOHN W. GREENE AND ASBURY H. GREENE, OF OREGON, MISSOURI; SAID ASBURY H. GREENE ASSIGNOR TO JOHN T. THATGHER AND PHILIP J.

ZILLES, BOTH OF SAME PLACE.

WINDOW-SHADE HANGING.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 340,438, dated April 20, 1886.

Application filed October 19, 1585. Serial No. 180,218. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern.-

ASBURY H. GREENE, both residents of Oregon, in the county of Holt and State of Missouri, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in WindowShade Hangings; and we do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, which will enable others skilled in [O the art to which it appertains to make and use the same, reference being bad to the accompanying drawings, which form a part of this specification, and in which- Figure 1 is a perspective view of the upper portion of a window-frame provided with our improved shade-fastening. Fig. 2 is a rear view of the fastening, showing one plate in its raised position and one in its lowered position, Fig. 3 is a view of the cornice of the windowframe, and Fig. 4 is a transverse section through the fastening and the cornice.

Similar letters of reference indicate corre sponding parts in all the figures.

Our invention has relation to that class of 2 fastenings or hangings for window shades in which the bearings of a shade-roller are secured to a bar or board having means for supporting it uponthe cornice or top piece of the window-frame; and it consists in the improved 0 construction and combination of parts of such a device, in which the bar supporting the shade is provided with three dilferent adjustments for supporting the same at different heights with relation to the supporting nails or tacks, adapting it to be adjusted to suit the construction of the cornice or top piece of the windowframe, as hereinafter more fully described and claimed.

In the accompanying drawings, the letter A 0 indicates the cornice or top piece of the win- 0 is the roller,

with recesses H, having beveled edges and 50 extending from about the middle of the width of the bar to the upper edge of the same, having a vertical recess in their bottoms at I. Plates J, having beveled edges K, slide in these recesses, and are formed with key-hole- 5 5 shaped slots L, having their enlargements M at their lower ends, while the lower ends of the plates are provided with projecting stops N, which will engage shoulders O at the upper ends of the recesses, preventing the plates i from slipping upward out of the recesses. It will now be seen that these slotted plates may be hooked or slipped upon nails or tacks l upon the cornice or top piece of the windowframe, and if, by reason of the shape of the 6 said cornice or top piece, the bar cannot be suspended as low as it will hang suspended from the nails with the plates drawn upward, the plates may be drawn down in the recesses, and thereupon slipped over the heads of the nails, which will slide upward in the narrow portions of the slots L, and bear against the upper ends of the recesses I in the bottoms of the beveled recesses, thus supporting the bar.

It will consequently be seen that the plates allow of two adjustments for the bar upon the same nails, and if the hooks are at the same height as the nails in the cornice or top piece, they may support the bar in its third adj ustment higher than the'bar is supported from the plates when they are drawn upward, and lower than the bar is supported when the plates are drawn down into the recesses, and the ends of the nails bear against the tops of the recesses in the bottoms of the beveled 8 5 recesses.

This device will avoid all trouble in adjusting the bearing-brackets in a horizontal line upon the window-frame, all that is necessary being to place the bar in a horizontal position c against the cornice or top piece of the windowframe, when the places for the nails may be marked by the location of the sliding plates, or, if it is desired to hang the bar with the plates drawn out of the recesses, the nails may 5 directly be driven through the slots in the plates, thus saving time and labor in adj usting the hanging, and doing away with the necessity of employing skilled labor to hang the shades.

The bars may fit any width of windowframe, so that a blind may be used in Windowframes of different widths without any alterations, and the bar and the shade may easily be removed from the cornice or top piece, when it is desired to have free access to the same for the purpose of cleaning or painting it. I

7 Having thus described our invention, we claim and desire to secure by Letters Patent of the United States- In a device for hanging window-shades, the combination of a bar having the shade journaled upon its front side, and having vertical recesses in its rear side extending to the upper edge of the bar, and formed with beveled edges and with stopping-shoulders at their upper ends and with vertical recesses in their bottoms, and plates having beveled edges fitting in the recesses and formed with key-holeshaped slots having their enlargements at their lower ends, and with stops at their lower ends for bearing against the shoulders, as and for the purpose shown and set forth.

In testimony that we claim the foregoing as our own we have hereunto affixed our signatures in presence of two witnesses.

JOHN 7V. GREENE. ASBURY H. GREENE. \Vitnesses:

JAMES F. Fosrnn, Louis 0. IRVINE. 

